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It shows him, his wife Kellie, their daughter Olivia and son Luke on vacation, hanging out with the dolphins at SeaWorld in San Diego.

“Remember that great vacation we had?” McCoy said to his family Monday night, pitching a permanent move. “That’s where we’re going.”

A head coach must motivate, and by the early look of things, McCoy can. The former Broncos offensive coordinator became the 15th head coach in Chargers history Tuesday, his wife and kids sitting in the front row of his introductory media conference.

A former quarterback at Long Beach State and Utah, he began coaching in 2000, serving as the Carolina Panthers’ offensive assistant, wide receivers coach, quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator at different times over a nine-year tenure.

He joined the Broncos in 2009 as their offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. In the past three seasons, McCoy worked as a coordinator and play-caller.

Unlike what Turner did for six years, McCoy won’t call plays here.

While still shaping the offensive system, he said he’ll hire an offensive coordinator who will handle those duties. He is in the process of determining his coaching staff, but there is known interest in retaining defensive coordinator John Pagano.

These are new times at Chargers Park.

Much younger, too.

Tom Telesco, hired Jan. 9, is the youngest general manager in Chargers history. McCoy is the second-youngest head coach only to Al Saunders, who was 39 when hired in 1986.

Former GM A.J. Smith is 63. Turner is 60.

For McCoy, this opportunity almost didn’t come.

The NFL regulates when coaches on playoff teams can be interviewed. The Chargers were required to wait until Denver was eliminated from the postseason before beginning the process with McCoy, and they could only wait so long.

If the Broncos won last weekend, San Diego was expected to have waited a week to see if Denver advanced to the Super Bowl. If it did, the Chargers wouldn’t have waited two more weeks for the Super Bowl to end, hiring someone else instead.

Telesco suggested the Broncos’ double-overtime loss to the Ravens on Saturday may have been a “little bit of fate.”

“He kind of hit all the factors that we were looking for,” Telesco said. “He’s a leader of men. He was a quarterback in college. You could kind of see the toughness in his eyes when he talked to us. He’s a teacher who can communicate with all different backgrounds of players and all different levels of experience. He’s a motivator as a coach who can get guys to play their best at critical times.”

McCoy received Jacob Hester’s seal of approval when speaking with Rivers on Monday. Hester, the Broncos fullback, spent the first four seasons of his NFL career with the Chargers.

Hester said it was a “good hire” to choose McCoy, someone who, in the past two years, has adapted his offense to three different Denver quarterbacks between Kyle Orton, Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning.

McCoy’s sideline demeanor is considered to be fairly even keeled.

“He’s not fiery as far on the field,” Hester said. “He’s not going to show you up, but definitely, he’s going to get on you, in a good way, behind closed doors and make you accountable. As a player, you don’t want a guy who’s going to yell his head off the whole time. But he gets on you in a way that’s good for the team.”